Sentence examples for not first hand from inspiring English sources

A lot of what people see is mediated and not first hand and this can affect their opinion.

I saw — not first hand — but I was working with Michael Jackson on a video for the song "They Don't Care About Us".

Not first hand as in upside down over a canyon, but over a pan-roasted fillet of tarakihi in a superb seafood restaurant called Fishbone.

Our exchange continued: I saw — not first hand — but I was working with Michael Jackson on a video for the song "They Don't Care About Us".

The information on parental type 2 diabetes was received from the type 1 diabetic patients by a questionnaire and not first hand from the parents themselves.

To go further, you need an original thesis, not second-hand digestions.

For the filmmaker whose self-image was formed at the Cinémathèque, the archive is a sort of external hard drive — not second-hand proof but, strangely, first-person experience.

It was an important part of Book Crisis that the books given should not only be new in the sense of not second-hand, but that some should be newly published too, the ones that are talked about in book groups and reviewed in newspapers.

Well, you're probably never going to find out at least not first-hand.

If not first-hand, then through friends and loved ones who take to heart all that they read and hear.

What many have not seen first hand are the myriad ways that New York's transit system took a serious hit.